Supporting Mali means providing human security in the West Africa region as a whole, with ECOWAS taking the lead.
Tag: sahel
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The daunting drivers of insecurity in the Sahara are discussed in this collection of seven articles.
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These are the main issues the Security Council need to consider in response to the Secretary-General’s report.
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With a peacekeeping mission in Mali almost certain, opportunities abound for the UN to do things differently.
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Making and building peace in northern Mali will require more than the use of force.
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The multimillion dollar kidnap-and-ransom industry in the western Sahel offers the benefit of public and political leverage for jihadist groups.
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Though military intervention in northern Mail is not imminent, it is worthwhile to examine what would be the humanitarian fallout.
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David Gressly, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, says governments and donors responded early enough to the food and nutrition crisis in the region that it will be contained for 2012. “I think we’ve now gotten through most of the lean season, which is the period of the greatest risk, without major problems,” he […]
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A dearth of political will is the main obstacle to successful mediation between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government.
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From stolen flood relief funds in Niger to the complicity of local government officials in Mali’s drug trade, corruption is a major problem in the Sahel.